Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti. New Foreign Minister was V. A. Tanner, who took part in the recent...
...People's Government was formed at Terijoki, a little seaside village in Finland just across the Russian border which the Red Army had just captured. The chairman and Foreign Minister of the new "Government" was an old revolutionary named Otto Kuusinen, who had lived in Moscow for years. Tovarish Kuusinen, who immediately after being raised to his new station took on the foreign title of Gospodin (Mr.), was, in fact, a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. He left Finland 20 years ago during the White Guard Terror. How the new "Government" could radio from Terijoki...
...People's Government's" declaration read a stern lesson to the Helsinki Government, outlined an ambitious program and called upon all Finns to "chase these hangmen" from Finland...
...will of the people, indignant at the criminal policy of the contemptible Government of Cajander, Erkko and Tanner, a new Government of our country-the People's Provisional Government-was formed today in Eastern Finland," begins the declaration...
...Having sold the interests of the country's independence, the plutocratic rulers of Finland, jointly with all kinds of imperialist enemies of the Finnish and Soviet peoples, ceaselessly hatched plans of anti-Soviet war provocations and finally plunged our country into the furnace of war against the Socialist Soviet Union-the great friend of the Finnish people...